| UBC Hospital | |
| Vancouver Coastal Health | |
|---|---|
| Geography | |
| Location | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Services | |
| Beds | 332 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1968 |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.vch.ca/ |
| Lists | Hospitals in Canada |
UBC Hospital is a health care facility located on the University Endowment Lands in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It opened in 1968, and is now operated by Vancouver Coastal Health.
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The acute portion of UBC Hospital has eight operating rooms (including two for the Centre for Surgical Innovation) and 800 staff including 270 physicians and 450 nurses. Patients make approximately 21,600 clinic visits to the hospital annually, to clinics such as the Bladder Care Centre, Movement Disorders/Parkinson’s Clinic, Sleep Disorders Program, Multiple Sclerosis Clinic, the Clinic for Alzheimer Disease and Cognitive Disorders, Breast Reconstruction Program, Mood Disorders Centre and the Operational Stress Injury (OSI) clinic. UBC Hospital is made up of three different buildings - Purdy, Koerner and Detwiller Pavilions. Koerner houses mainly acute services, mentioned above. Purdy houses extended/residential care. Detwiller offers psychiatry services.
Units include; the Acute Care Unit, Surgical Observation Unit, Transitional Care Unit and Urgent Care Centre in Koerner Pavilion [1], the Extended Care Unit in Purdy Pavilion [2], and the Psychiatric Unit in Detwiller Pavilion. Specialty areas at UBC Hospital include: acute medicine, general surgery, reconstructive orthopedic surgery, psychiatry and gerontology.
The Centre for Surgical Innovation is a provincial specialty centre featuring two new operating rooms and 38 inpatient beds, opened in April 2006. Approximately 1600 hip and knee replacement surgeries surgeries are performed each year.
The UBC Hospital Urgent Care Centre [3] offers specialized treatment for non-life threatening emergencies by emergency trained physicians and nurses. UBC Hospital Urgent Care Centre can treat things such as; allergies, asthma, broken bones, cuts that need stitches, eye problems, fevers, flus, IV therapy, minor burns, nosebleeds, skin infections and sprains. The UBC Hospital Urgent Care Centre also offers a range of diagnostic services and testing including X-rays, blood tests, Ultrasound, CT scans and ECGs. The Urgent Care Centre is open daily from 8 am to 10 pm. Appointments are not necessary. The centre handles approximately 18,650 visits every year.
Also located at UBC Hospital is the Brain Research Centre [4], a partnership of the UBC Faculty of Medicine and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute [5]. The Brain Research Centre comprises more than 200 investigators with multidisciplinary expertise in neuroscience research ranging from the test tube, to the bedside, to industrial spin-offs.
The National Core for Neuroethics National Core for Neuroethics, a research-based facility with mandate to tackle the ethical, legal, policy and social implications of frontier neuroscience through high impact research, education and outreach to ensure the close alignment of innovation and human values, is also based at UBC Hospital. Category:health
A new Centre for Brain Health is planned for UBC Hospital. The 135,000-square-foot (12,500 m2) building, to open in 2013, will be dedicated solely to brain health, and will bring researchers and clinicians together from the areas of neurology, neuroscience, and psychiatry. The multi-disciplinary, collaborative approach to tackling brain diseases and disorders puts VCH and UBC in a unique position to make significant advances that will benefit people throughout British Columbia and around the world.
Vancouver Coastal Health [6] UBC Faculty of Medicine [7] Government of British Columbia [8] Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute [9] VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation [10]